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Francis Taylor Building
FRANCIS TAYLOR BUILDING, INNER TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7BY
England

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Work Department

Planning
Environment
Infrastructure
Town and Village Greens
Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
Local Government
Ecclesiastical

Position

Morag Ellis KC is widely recognised as a leading expert in planning and local government law in England and Wales, with a wide ranging practice covering all aspects of development.

She is consistently praised in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 Guides and the Planning Magazine Survey of barristers.

Morag is a member of the Silks’ Panel to the Welsh Government and a past Chairman of the Planning and Environment Bar Association. She gave evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the National Policy Statement on Ports and the Welsh Government Senedd on the review of TAN 8 (Renewable Energy) and the Planning Law (Wales) Act 2015 and served as a member of the Interim Planning Advisory Group advising the Welsh Minister on changing culture in Welsh Planning.

Career

Called 1984; KC 2006
Dean of the Arches and Auditor
Master of Faculties
QC Church Commissioner
Immediate past Commissary General of the Diocese of Canterbury
Immediate past Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Southwark.

Memberships

Member and former Chairman of the Planning and Environment Bar Association
Member of the National Infrastructure Planning Association
Standing Committee Member of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association
Member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
Member of Public Law Wales
Member of the London Welsh Lawyers Association
Dean of the Arches and Auditor
Master of Faculties
KC Church Commissioner
Immediate past Commissary General of the Diocese of Canterbury
Immediate past Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Southwark.

Education

Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1983 BA Law; 1986 MA)

Leisure

Bach Choir
School Governor
Church of England Reader

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Agriculture

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3

Morag Ellis KC – Francis Taylor Building

London Bar > Planning

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1

Morag Ellis KC –Francis Taylor Building ‘Morag’s main strength is her pragmatic and practical approach to advising clients. She is clear and concise and gives advice with authority.’

Described as a ‘chambers of choice’ for planning, Francis Taylor Building prides itself on providing ‘expertise in a myriad of planning matters’. Their team of ‘exceptionally knowledgeable’ silks and juniors providing services that encompass planning applications, development proposals and complex environmental work. Morag Ellis KC led Charles Merrett, in R (BDW Trading and others) v Wrexham Council representing a multitude of clients in a key case considering whether local authorities have a discretion not to adopt a development plan after it is found acceptable at examination. Richard Honey KC has led various counsel from multiple sets in a multitude of cases this year, with a notable highlight being R (Parkes) v Dorset Council, Home Secretary & Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities concerning the geographical extent of Dorset Council’s development control powers in the interface between the land and the sea. Hereward Phillpot KC led Hugh Flanagan in representing East Anglia One North Ltd and East Anglia Two Ltd on in judicial reviews of development consent orders for windfarms off the Suffolk coast.

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